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I just spent many hours trying to rough out the taper on one limb of a maple board bow, and I have a long way to go. I typically only see draw knives mentioned when working staves, but will one work for board bows?
Thanks!
BTW, just got Paul Comstock's "The Bent Stick". Great read and very informative.
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Sure, I've used drawknives on boards. Be careful about it digging into the wood. If it does attack the wood from the other side. Jawge
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I have a 4-in-1 rasp that I used for about two hours on the board, man that was tough. I guess I should also seek out a good farriers rasp.
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I've been using a spoke shaver on red oak and walnut boards. It works pretty well. Way faster than the rasp and hardly any tool marks to clean up.
GA
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Yes. Like Jawge said, if it takes too big a bite cut from the opposite direction. Take your time. The drawknife works well for taking off a lot of wood on a board bow. I picked up a pretty good farrier's rasp from a farm and feed store for about $12. It takes wood off pretty quickly and is easy to use.
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I'm with Nim-rod, i used a small plane for the boards that i did, worked nicely. Be careful of direction: one way works fine, turn the other way and it digs wood out, never figured out how do predict which way was correct other than a trial run both ways on the board. Get close to your lines with the plane and zero in with rasp/scraper.
Good luck with it!
-------------------- Kevin
"he hath bent his bow, and made it ready . . .his arrow shall go forth as the lightning" - Psalm 7:12, Zech. 9:14 Posts: 338 | From: Texas | Registered: Jan 2011
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